May 2025 | Facts and Info from the European Physical Society | e-EPS
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EPS Emmy Noether Distinction 2024
The EPS is happy to announce the EPS Emmy Noether Distinction 2024:
- the EPS Emmy Noether Distinction, full career, goes to Daniela Bortoletto, head of Particle Physics at the University of Oxford and Nicholas Kurti Senior Research Fellow in Physics at Brasenose College.
- the EPS Emmy Noether Distinction, mid-career, goes to Doris Reiter of the Faculty of Physics of the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany.
Congratulations to the laureates!
News from the EPS Council
The EPS Council took place in Copenhagen from 16th-17th May.
José María De Teresa is the new EPS President-Elect. Els De Wolf is laureate of the EPS Gero Thomas Medal.
During the meeting, the members held elections to renew the EPS Executive Committee.
Congratulations to all the new members and laureates!
Alessandro Volta Prize 2025
The European Physical Society and Acinque S.p.A. have created a joint award to promote excellent research and achievements in physics. The award shall be made for outstanding achievements in physics.
The Alessandro Volta Prize 2025 is now open for nominations. The deadline is 30th September.
Further info can be found here.
ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC
In a paper published in Physical Review Journals, the ALICE collaboration reports measurements that quantify the transmutation of lead into gold in CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
CERN is an EPS Associate Member.
The EPS staff members mourn the loss of Jean-François Kammerlocher
Jean-François was employed at the EPS headquarters in Mulhouse and joined our team in 2022, as assistant to the IT manager.
Our colleague passed away on 16th May 2025, at the age of 39. We will remember his kindness and good humour.
Antarctica: The oldest ice on its way to Europe
The ice cores extracted in Antarctica as part of the Beyond EPICA - Oldest Ice project, funded by the European Commission and coordinated by the Institute of Polar Sciences of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR), are currently en route to Europe aboard the research vessel Laura Bassi.
CNR is an EPS Associate Member.
Thomas Nilsson Scientific Managing Director of FAIR & GSI
The renowned Swedish experimental physicist Professor Thomas Nilsson took up the position of the Scientific Managing Director at the GSI and FAIR.
GSI is an EPS Associate Member.
Pollutants often originate in the air
At CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research in Geneva, an international research team led by the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI has conducted especially precise measurements of atmospheric chemistry.
PSI is an EPS Associate Member.
News from MPI Science of Light
AI finds new ways to observe the most extreme events in the universe.
The Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Light is an EPS Associate Member.
News from KM3NeT
Observation of an ultra-high-energy cosmic neutrino with KM3NeT, published in Nature.
KM3Net is a research infrastructure housing the next generation neutrino telescopes.
News from AYIMI
The 13 Persian Young Naturalists’ Tournament, PYNT, was held on 1st-2nd May 2025, by the Ariaian Young Innovative Minds Institute, AYIMI and ADIB institute.
Read the report of the event.
African Physics Newsletter
The African Physics Newsletter (APN) is a quarterly, electronic publication about physics in Africa as gathered and reported by an Editorial Board of African physicists representing various regions of the continent. APS has published the newsletter, which launched in 2019, since its inception.
The newsletter is available free of charge and open to all. Subscribe here.
APS is an EPS Collaborating Society.
Events and dates
spinQueST Conference
The conference will take place in Monte Verità (Ascona), Switzerland, from 17th to 21st August 2025.
Joint Annual Meeting of the Austrian and Swiss Physical Societies
The meeting will be held from 18th-25th August 2025 at the University of Vienna.
EPS Activities in 2025
Click here for the list of the activities of the EPS Executive Committee and the EPS Staff.
